Heffel Fine Art Auction House set a new record sale cost tonight when a rare Emily Carr painting sold for $2,164,500 in the second session of Heffel’s Live Spring Auction. Wind in the Treetops, 36-1/2 x 21-1/4 inch oil on canvas, circa 1936-1939, is from the majority sought-after period in Carr’s career – the mature period of the 1930s. Heffel Fine Art Auction House has already sold two Carr paintings for more than $1-million and is the only auction house to reach that price point for her works. This ranks as the fourth main priced painting in Canadian history.
Tonight’s sale result of $11.3-million was well past the $6 - $9-million presale calculate for Heffel’s two sessions. The Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art, which commenced at 4 p.m. PST, had sales totaling $4.7-million. The second session of Fine Canadian Art began at 7 p.m. PST and had a sales entire of $6.6-million. Both sessions were held before a crowd of 300 people at Vancouver’s new Convention Centre overlooking Coal Harbor.
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